..Intensity-modulated radiation therapy is a relatively new, advanced form of radiation therapy that is being studied in an effort to improve local control rates and minimize the late effects of treatment...

..We conducted a phase II clinical trial of concurrent paclitaxel, carboplatin, and radiation with or without surgery as an alternative to the standard cisplatin-based CRT for localized and metastatic esophageal cancer...

..These concepts, applied in prostate cancer in this communication, have wider applications in other disease sites and in the introduction of technologies beyond intensity-modulated radiation therapy...